Joe Gatto (artist)

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Victor Joseph Gatto (born 1893 New York City, died 1965 Miami) was an American primitive artist. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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References

  1. Life Magazine 8 Nov 1948 - Page 72 "But the thing that makes Joe Gatto unique is his dedication to the art of painting. It is an art in which he has never had any instruction. He works at it by the hour, squinting at canvases he usually props up on a tattered easy chair, laying on the .."
  2. The Clarion Volume 13 1988 - Page 59
  3. Ellin Gordon, Barbara Luck, Tom Patterson Flying free: twentieth-century self-taught art from the collection of Ellin and Baron Gordon 1997 - Page 103
  4. Winthrop Sargeant Geniuses, Goddesses, and People 1949 -- Page 190 "And let no one imagine that primitive painters do not work hard at their painting. Joe Gatto has worked many hours a-day for as long as eighteen months over a single picture. Lack of professional technique slows up a primitive."